Supposed to have been written by MARY, Queen of Scots,
during her confinement.
Now brightly smiles the cloudless sky,
And soft the gales of fragrance sigh ;
Summer puts on her golden robe,
To bless the gay rejoicing globe ;
And laughing buds of ev’ry dye,
Revel beneath her lustrous eye.
E’en I too catch her bounteous glance,
And feel again Hope’s pulses dance ;
But quickly fades the mantling glow,
And leaves me to the gloom of woe
For not my wishes to supply
Does Summer ope her lustrous eye.
O ! hither haste, thou nectar’d gale,
Now flutt’ring through the distant vale !
Ah no ! it scorns the prison-gloom;
And seeks the Woodland’s bursting bloom ;
‘Tis not for me that breezes sigh,
Or Summer opes her lustrous eye.
Still, still the hectic cheek shall burn,
And ask in vain for health’s return ;
Whilst Mem’ry, foe to Mis’ry’s child,
On life’s rich core shall riot wild.
Long have I bade farewell to Joy,
And Summer’s full and lustrous eye.
Still o’er this mind surcharg’d with woe,
The fever’d gale of Thought shall blow ;
‘Till death’s cold hand shall chill its rage,
And cancel Mem’ry’s blotted page ;
Then o’er the green-turf where I lie,
Summer may pour her lustrous eye.
(Laura Sophia Temple)
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